Tuesday, October 28, 2025

The Upcoming December Lantern

For those who may be concerned, there will be an issue of The Lantern, December 1635, available for preview on the 1st of November. The public version will be available on the 21st of that month. The principle writing is finished, the editing is ongoing and I am making ads to fill out the content. I'm a bit stuck for a back page, so if anyone has an idea, I'll certainly consider it, but I have faith someone will arise before the end of this week.

Chat's image generator has completely gone to shit and is now no longer useful for what it could do easily just four months ago. I don't know what's going on; visually, different sorts of errors were proliferating every day throughout this month, such that by just five days ago, it simply refused to render a clear image at all. Clearly the chat-5 rollout failure has the company in a tailspin, such that they're rushing around making changes without considering the consequences. The text function is always showing signs of wear, so that I can feel the goal posts moving even as all I want it to do is comment on work to see if it's either accurate or if what I'm writing makes a good impression on the reader. I suspect that it's going to be come the "Betamax" of text-generation platforms, soon to be replaced by a score of alternatives.  I've recently found one, it's generating GREAT pictures for me, more quickly and in a format not that different from chat. Strange times when a doofus running a company can simultaneously throw an advance out to rival the internet and months later sabotage it idiotically.

In any case... I'm sure that given my melt down a month ago, some folks were worried, but things are fine. The stories on the cover shown are all finished and, in my opinion, excellent. I look forward to working on the issue after this.

No comments:

Post a Comment